AWAKEN TRAINING
Awaken your congregation, small group, or leadership team to their unique, powerful, God-given calling and unleash them so that the broader community encounters the love and presence of Jesus.
PURPOSE
To Awaken and Activate the “missional DNA� that God has implanted in every Christian and church.
OUTCOME
Awaken the courage to re-envision the future and Activate the resources to live out your calling.
OUTLINE
1. Intro 2. Awake to my past a) Timeline and Insights 3. Awake to my present a) Values and Biblical Identity 4. Awake to my future a) Personal impact 5. Activate steps towards Personal Calling Statement 1
A STEP OF COURAGE
Think of a time when you took a courageous step towards a new future. Had you not taken action, what would have been the results? Peter’s step of courage: 25 And early in the morning he came walking toward them on the sea. 26 But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out in fear. 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them and said, “Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid.” 28 Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” 29 He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat, started walking on the water, and came toward Jesus.
“As I have said right along, one of the deepest mysteries we encounter in reading the Bible is how it could be that these disciples, who had been cowards, became in the end courageous apostles.”
Shusaku Endo, The Life of Jesus
Now is the time to take a courageous step forward! 2
TWO PARADIGMS
ORGANIC MOVEMENT
ORGANIZED RELIGION
FIVE COURAGEOUS SHIFTS
1. FOCUS: __________________________________________________________________
2. METHOD: _________________________________________________________________
3. RESULTS: ________________________________________________________________
4. POSTURE: ________________________________________________________________
5. POWER SOURCE: _________________________________________________________
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THE URGENCY OF MISSION
Describe the urgency you feel about living on mission.
DISCUSS IN PAIRS: If you were sent into your neighborhood, as a fully-funded missionary - as only a missionary - how would you live?
Be the change you want your congregation to be!
13 For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
14 But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? 15 And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
Romans 10:13-15
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ENVISION THE MISSIONAL PATH
Draw two pictures to illustrate your life on mission all the time; Today and Tomorrow.
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MY PRAYER OFf COURAGE
I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world!� John 16:33 6